Comments on: Excel Screen flicker http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/excel-screen-flicker/ Simon Murphy on professional spreadsheet development stuff Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:42:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jack9 http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/excel-screen-flicker/#comment-16799 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:21:20 +0000 http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/?p=1875#comment-16799 Lance Phillips Says:

Wednesday, 18th November, 2009 at 2:20 pm | Reply
The security update KB973475 causes the same issues with Excel 2003. If you uninstall it, everything works fine.

How can I remove this update… or is it not recommended?

]]> By: Jack9 http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/excel-screen-flicker/#comment-16798 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:13:16 +0000 http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/?p=1875#comment-16798 Flikering is getting o my nerves.
I cannot see damages anywhere, yet…

I use linked cells extensively… very

Amateur user.

]]> By: Pirakutu http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/excel-screen-flicker/#comment-15090 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:23:18 +0000 http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/?p=1875#comment-15090 Microsoft has now provided a hotfix for this problem and states that this problem will be fixed in the next version of the security update MS09-067. See the link below:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978522/

]]> By: Roemer http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/excel-screen-flicker/#comment-14942 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:47:43 +0000 http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/?p=1875#comment-14942 @ms xszil: I hope to hear of the fix, soon!

@Simon: THANK YOU, finally I can work again without my screen being messed up all the time. I looked for this for some time!

However you write: “I made my choice a long time ago when I stopped applying patches because they just broke stuff or ripped out useful functionality.” I remember the time that that was common expert knowledge, but in my memory, that time is about ten years ago. I have been a heavy and expert user (Excel/Access) of Office 2000 and since a year or two, Office 2007, and this is the first time in very MANY years that an update caused me any problems. So I would say faulty updates are an exception, and i find functionality sometimes added.

]]> By: ms xszil http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/excel-screen-flicker/#comment-14888 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:31:26 +0000 http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/?p=1875#comment-14888 For those who are interested… update from Microsoft:

“Good news! The fix for your Excel screen update issue has been coded and tested, and is now in the final approval process. Next it has to be built into a full Office build and the patch and setup have to be tested. I still don’t have a final release date, but I have high hopes for a fix at the beginning of the year.”

Cheers

]]> By: CM http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/excel-screen-flicker/#comment-14874 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:05:05 +0000 http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/?p=1875#comment-14874 You are able to remove this patch!

1) Go to Start, Settings, Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs
2) Click on the Show Updates check box and wait for the list to be populated (takes a few minutes)
3) Scroll down to the Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 section
4) Find Security Update for Excel 2003 (probably last in the list)
5) Click on it
6) Hit the Remove button
7) Will take several minutes to complete
8) No need for reboot

]]> By: dougaj4 http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/excel-screen-flicker/#comment-14863 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:59:15 +0000 http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/?p=1875#comment-14863 Discussion of this problem at the Eng-Tips forum may be of interest:

http://eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=259617&page=1

]]> By: Lance Phillips http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/excel-screen-flicker/#comment-14758 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:12:06 +0000 http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/?p=1875#comment-14758 I have an Excel Workbook with associated addins. I can get it to work in Excel 2007 or Excel 2003 with the new Microsoft bugs, if I open the workbook then activate one or two sheets other than the one that displays when the workbook opens. I have had to use application.screenupdating = true in some places. The select a different sheet trick appears to work even with screenupdating = false so the user doesn’t have to see the screen changing. In some cases I have had userforms disappear too. That one is not as easy to fix. I have also found that activating a sheet before changing it does not always work as a fix. It is disheartening to have to code in all these ridiculous things just because people at Microsoft dropped the ball!

]]> By: ms xszil http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/excel-screen-flicker/#comment-14748 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:22:28 +0000 http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/?p=1875#comment-14748 Thanks to Simon for originally helping me with this on the old school favorite Excel L list. First time posting here – Hi!!

I also concur that a variety of things cause the issue. Have not been able to isolate anything in particular, but it’s certainly not limited to sheet protection / unprotection code. For instance, Application.CutCopyMode will do it too. The only magic solution for all instances is to uninstall the security updates.

For what it’s worth, I also tried to find out if this was officially declared a bug and being addressed at Microsoft…or if that was just gossip. I talked to a guy on the Excel support team who said “not to his knowledge” … in the meantime I had to send him a workbook that would reproduce the problem for him…. Stay tuned!

]]> By: Lance Phillips http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/excel-screen-flicker/#comment-14726 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:20:41 +0000 http://smurfonspreadsheets.wordpress.com/?p=1875#comment-14726 The security update KB973475 causes the same issues with Excel 2003. If you uninstall it, everything works fine.

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